Basics

Your project can contain files to be protected by copyright. Instead of generating and editing copyright
notices in each file separately,
PhpStorm
suggests that you use copyright profiles. Each copyright profile is
associated with a certain
scope
and
defines the text and formatting of the copyright notice to be inserted in the files within this scope.

You may need several different copyright notices for files within the same project. In this case, PhpStorm enables you to define several profiles
and associate them with relevant scopes.

You can also declare one of the available profiles as default project copyright profile.
The settings of this profile will be applied to any project file that is not included in any scope or belongs
to a scope, which has no associated copyright profile.

A copyright profile can contain an explicit plain text of the copyright notice or its definition
through a Velocity template.
You can type the desired text or a Velocity template manually or import a copyright notice
definition from an existing profile.

Note the following:

If a file does not belong to any scope with a copyright profile assigned,
the default copyright profile is used.

If the No copyright option has been set as the Default Copyright Profile
in the Copyright settings dialog box, no copyright notice will be created or
updated and PhpStorm will prompt you to configure a profile to apply.